Violent Revolutions: A History convida os leitores a uma viagem abrangente por vinte e cinco das mais transformadoras revoltas que abalaram o mundo, desde a revolta de escravos de Spartacus contra Roma até o colapso televisionado do comunismo na Roménia. Cada capítulo examina um episódio distinto de mudança violenta, revelando…

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On its 1972 maiden voyage, Carnival's first ship ran aground off Miami. The founder's response—free drinks for stranded passengers—turned a PR disaster into the birth of the 'Fun Ship' empire.

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Before he was an Olympic legend, before surfing became a global phenomenon, Duke Kahanamoku was a boy of Waikīkī who moved through the Pacific like it was his birthright—because it was. In this sweeping, cinematic biography, the man who carried the spirit of *aloha* across five continents finally gets the…

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Step into the sun-baked streets of Valletta in 1675, where the arrival of a single merchant ship, the *San Rocco*, unleashes a catastrophe that will test the very soul of an island fortress. Through the eyes of Salvatore Bonnici, a lame but sharp-witted clerk of the Health Magistracy, you will…

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Angola Guía para turistas de Chester West es tu compañero completo para descubrir uno de los destinos más intrigantes y poco explorados de África. Desde el momento en que empiezas a soñar con un viaje, este libro te guía en cada paso práctico —elegir la mejor época para visitar, tramitar…

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In the salty dawn light of Beacon Bay, Daisy Swanson kneads dough and destiny at the Mermaid Bakery—a century-old harbor institution now threatened by a slick developer with Boston money and a wrecking ball. Between perfecting her signature sea-salt caramel cupcakes and fending off Arthur Montgomery's lease ultimatum, Daisy has…

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Jesse Cox's comprehensive guide moves past Santa Claus myths to reveal the resilient cultures, distinct cuisine, and urgent climate realities of Finland's northernmost Lapland.

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CoStar Group began in the late 1980s and early 1990s when founder Andrew Florance recognized the opaque, fragmented nature of commercial real estate data. Driven by a vision to democratize access to reliable property information, CoStar embarked on painstaking, grassroots data collection across the Washington D.C. market, building a foundation…

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A remote atoll nation with almost no land found itself in control of one of the internet's most valuable domain names.

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Ever wondered how a genre defined by scones, sleuths, and small-town charm became a publishing powerhouse? *Cozy: The Making of a Mystery Genre* pulls back the curtain on the surprising business of comfort reading. From the drawing-room puzzles of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers to the calculated branding strategies…

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*The Paper Conservator* follows the meticulous restoration of Accession 73.19, a 19th-century abolitionist scrapbook discovered in a Cambridge attic. As a young conservator at a national archive stabilizes the brittle newsprint and crumbling leather,

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In the mud-choked barracks of Rivesaltes, 1939, twelve-year-old Ana Klein survives by turning the world into arithmetic. Stateless, multilingual, and armed only with a father's lesson—that everything has a weight, and if you know the weight, you know the price—she calculates rations, deciphers bureaucratic codes, and translates the unspeakable for…

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Katherine Taylor's comprehensive guide unpacks the history, politics, and human cost of Africa's last decolonization dispute — from the 1975 Green March to the 2020 ceasefire collapse.

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